Urban communities books

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The New Urban Sociology

The New Urban Sociology

Author: Mark Gottdiener ,  Ray Hutchison
ISBN: 9780813344256
Format: Paperback
$116.16

Now revised and updated, this groundbreaking text utilizes an integrated sociospatial paradigm to consider the role...  Read More >>

Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and What It Means for America

Hollowing Out the Middle: The Rural Brain Drain and...

Author: Patrick J. Carr ,  Maria J. Kefalas
ISBN: 9780807006146
Format: Paperback
$39.99

Discusses the hollowing out of small-town America, a phenomenon in which young people graduate from high school...  Read More >>

Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban

Advertising, Commercial Spaces and the Urban

Author: Anne M. Cronin
ISBN: 9780230216808
Format: Hardback
$84.99

Providing a detailed account of contemporary outdoor advertising and its relationship with urban space, this book...  Read More >>

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco...

Author: Teresa Gowan
ISBN: 9780816648696
Format: Hardback
$89.99

Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association,...  Read More >>

Ethnic Appropriations of the City

Ethnic Appropriations of the City

Author: Winfried Ellingsen
ISBN: 9783838312545
Format: Paperback
$264.00

The main thesis of this book relates the territoriality of ethnic groups to their cultural and political concepts...  Read More >>

The American Urban Reader: History and Theory

The American Urban Reader: History and Theory

Author: Lisa Krissoff Boehm (Columbia College, Chicago, USA) ,  Steven H. Corey
ISBN: 9780415803984
Format: Paperback
$96.00

The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial...  Read More >>

The American Urban Reader: History and Theory

The American Urban Reader: History and Theory

Author: Lisa Krissoff Boehm (Columbia College, Chicago, USA) ,  Steven H. Corey
ISBN: 9780415803946
Format: Hardback
$240.00

The American Urban Reader brings together the most exciting work on the evolution of the American city, from colonial...  Read More >>

The Just City

The Just City

Author: Susan S. Fainstein
ISBN: 9780801446559
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Susan Fainstein's concept of the ""just city"" encourages planners and policymakers to embrace a different approach...  Read More >>

The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families and Neighborhoods

The Abundant Community: Awakening the Power of Families...

Author: John McKnight ,  Peter Block
ISBN: 9781605095844
Format: Hardback
$71.15

It is a life that becomes possible when we join our neighbors in creating a community that nurtures our family and...  Read More >>

Demographischer Impact in städtischen Wohnquartieren: Entwicklungsszenarien und Handlungsoptionen

Demographischer Impact in städtischen Wohnquartieren:...

Author: Olaf Schnur
ISBN: 9783531176505
Format: Paperback
$197.97

Auf der stadtentwicklungspolitisch so wichtigen Ebene der Wohnquartiere gab es hinsichtlich demographischer Prozesse...  Read More >>

The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and Premonitions of New York’s Destruction

The City’s End: Two Centuries of Fantasies, Fears, and...

Author: Max Page
ISBN: 9780300164466
Format: Paperback
$51.95

"From 19th-century paintings of fires raging through New York to scenes of Manhattan engulfed by a gigantic wave...  Read More >>

Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality, and Criminal Violence

Unequal Crime Decline: Theorizing Race, Urban Inequality,...

Author: Karen F. Parker
ISBN: 9780814767856
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Crime in most urban areas has been falling since 1991. This title presents a structural and theoretical analysis...  Read More >>

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco

Hobos, Hustlers, and Backsliders: Homeless in San Francisco...

Author: Teresa Gowan
ISBN: 9780816669677
Format: Paperback
$29.99

Winner of the 2011 Robert Park Award for the Best Book in Community and Urban Sociology, American Sociological Association,...  Read More >>

Ain't No Makin' it (2 Volume Set)

Ain't No Makin' it (2 Volume Set)

Author: Jay Macleod
ISBN: 9781458781529
Format: Paperback
$52.77

This classic text addresses one of the most important issues in modern social theory and policy; how social inequality...  Read More >>

University Avenue Project: The language of urbanism - A six-mile photographic enquiry

University Avenue Project: The language of urbanism...

Author: Wing Young Huie
ISBN: 9780873517942
Format: Paperback
$34.19

Explores the complex cultural and socio-economic diversity of the St Paul neighbourhoods along University Avenue....  Read More >>

The City

The City

Author: Emily C Dawson
ISBN: 9781607530220
Format: Hardback
$56.36

Describes a trip to the city and typical things one might do when visiting a large city. Includes visual literacy...  Read More >>

Whore$

Whore$

Author: Eric Culpepper
ISBN: 9781453742181
Format: Paperback
$14.52

WHORE$ is a work that is irrefutably destined to stand alone as the single solitary work of totally unparalleled...  Read More >>

New Urban Development: Looking Back to See Forward

New Urban Development: Looking Back to See Forward

Author: Dr Claude Gruen
ISBN: 9786613383259
Format: Electronic book text
$136.07

The recent recession is one result of how local planning laws and practices have stifled competition, discouraged...  Read More >>

Streets of Memory

Streets of Memory

Author: Amy Mills
ISBN: 9780820335735
Format: Hardback
$171.47

Examines what it means to live in a place that once was, but no longer is, ethnically and religiously diverse. This...  Read More >>

A Punjabi Village in Perspective: Book I : A Punjabi Village in Pakistan: The Community Book II : The Economic Life of a Punjabi Village: The Land and the Economy

A Punjabi Village in Perspective: Book I : A Punjabi...

Author: Zekiya Eglar (Dr)
ISBN: 9780195477238
Format: Hardback
$105.60

The two volumes, the award-winning A Punjabi Village in Pakistan and The Economic Life of a Punjabi Village are...  Read More >>

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America

How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change...

Author: Carl Abbott (Portland State University)
ISBN: 9786613947741
Format: Electronic book text
$94.88

<p>Cities rather than individual pioneers have been the driving force in the settlement and economic development...  Read More >>

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